Example sentences of "[vb past] be thinking " in BNC.
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1 | The whole idea that he 'd been thinking about since Christmas seemed pointless all of a sudden . |
2 | She 'd been thinking just that for most of the long , aching , sleepless night . |
3 | She 'd sided with my parents a couple of years before when I 'd been thinking of a career as an artist , and they were opposed to that … |
4 | She 'd had a fever since last night , and all day at school he 'd been thinking about her . |
5 | Now he 'd lost track of what he 'd been thinking of completely . |
6 | ‘ That 's just what I 'd been thinking ! ’ answered Gabriel in surprise . |
7 | I 'd been thinking for a long time that I 'd welcome the chance to talk with a psychiatrist , although not about captivity — I felt I 'd worked my way through that enough — but about my past and how I came to be the person I was when I was taken hostage . |
8 | She had n't known until Sir Philip mentioned it at dinner last night that I 'd been thinking about marrying her . |
9 | He 'd been thinking about her , but he did n't want it to show . |
10 | ‘ And I 'd been thinking of you only yesterday . |
11 | Last night , standing on the deck of Devlin 's ketch as they rapidly approached the island , she 'd been thinking the same thing . |
12 | She 'd been thinking about becoming a nun but she could n't be with a baby . |
13 | He 'd been thinking that he 'd covered every angle , but now he was feeling as if he 'd been wrong-footed . |
14 | I 'd been thinking about this all the way back to London . |
15 | He 'd been thinking of asking one of the two who had entered the front room during Slater 's monologue — the more attractive of them — for a dance even as Slater was telling him how desirable Richard Slater was . |
16 | His answering look told her he knew exactly what she 'd been thinking . |
17 | Isabel 's personal integrity had been there in her clear gaze all the time , if he 'd been thinking with his head instead of with his emotions . |
18 | She 'd been thinking about something , or somebody , else . |
19 | ‘ I 'd been thinking of it , ’ he said . |
20 | Oh , that 's what I 'd been thinking , fifty percent of what they want . |
21 | It would be lovely , she 'd been thinking , to be at a party with Guido . |
22 | Luce followed his lead , not yet clear enough in her own mind to try and provide any answers , or confide what she 'd been thinking . |
23 | After the things she 'd been thinking , his touch would probably make her burst into flames . |
24 | you know there was I 've got a policy er here that I can take out and you took it and then that was it and you spent the rest of the time talking about this one policy whereas , because you 'd been thinking about that one , there may have been others that you may have been able to disturb her about or erm you know if she had other member of the family or education , whatever , there was , there was other areas that maybe you could 've brought up or gone back to anyway . |
25 | I 'd been thinking of you know things that that I had that can go . |
26 | If that 's what United were thinking they could n't have been more wrong . |
27 | Hugh Kenner is no doubt right to suppose that it was Pound who had been thinking of it . |
28 | He beat her easily at chess the following week , but when he came again she had been thinking and remembering . |
29 | Christian leaders who had been thinking of it have been backing off . |
30 | It had never occurred to her that Christopher had been thinking of these things too . |